From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 21 23:24:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A44EAF9E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa09-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa09-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.193.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8463C2034 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by p3plsmtpa09-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id sPQH1m00E4XeM0101PQJnW; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:24:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:24:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Subject: Re: math "formulae" using libreoffice Message-ID: <20131121232429.GA28395@ethic.thought.org> References: <20131120000851.GA8007@ethic.thought.org> <20131120014303.7eb2bd44.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131120014134.GA9893@ethic.thought.org> <20131121001853.GA18522@ethic.thought.org> <20131121053303.GA65453@slackbox.erewhon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131121053303.GA65453@slackbox.erewhon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Polytropon , FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:24:25 -0000 Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 06:33:03AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:18:53PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:41:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > > > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:43:03AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:08:51 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: [[[ ..... ]]] > > well, the following string: > > > > int from a to R lim R rightarrow infinity > > > > creates more/less what I have it mind. [it's a nonsense > > formula, really.] ---anybody know how I can put a square > > around the expression? > > Use \fbox{text} to just frame it, or \framebox[width][position]{text} if you > want to play with the box width and positioning. > > Roland isnt that TeX/LATeX? most of the story: my system admin installed libreoffice [??] he is a self-taught computer wizard who begin teaching himself BSD in the late 1990s, but I have the british distro of linux. ubuntu? yeah. ive got KDE and/or KUBUNTU. Last July, this guy flew in from Dallas with two seriously heavy duty Xeon Dell quadcore, and over a long weekend, threw out my old busted slow Dells and did some magic with my server, got Kubuntu on my desktop. he left me with my only new, 2009, Dell out of reach on my desk. He's going to install FBSD when he has time. Among the reasons I miss BSD is that *there* I know where things live. [K}ubuntu: nope. I winced when he messed with my '09 Dell which had FBSD.... but he does know his stuff, and I'm pretty busted up. I've used vi {nvi}, vim, since the old 3adm [?] dumb but nifty terms. the *only* time I use openoffice or libreoffice is for term papers. I just happened to find the "formula" side very recently. .... [[below in queue]]... I agree with Polytrop that Don Knuth's brillliant stuff is a must for anything serious. gary > -- > R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community. http://www.thought.org/HOPE